“Night is a suspended time when we come to drag our loneliness” – Tahrir

The arrangers, the DJs, the directors of the establishments, the night owls, the spotters… Every Wednesday, “Libé” gives voice to those who live through the night. Today, resident Brazilian DJs play Lolita, Follivores and Rosa-Bonheur pop nights at Buttes-Chaumont.

Dressed in his fitted, sometimes ribbed suit, and his tie, he assumes an elegant evening look. “gap” with time. “I have a great love for velvet,” Nelson D’Araujo, 35, says he’s equally proud of his afro. The Brazilian DJ, resident of many gay parties with pop undertones (Lolita at Maxim’s, Les Follivores at Club Haussmann) and Rosa-Bonheur des Buttes-Chaumont (19th arrondissement), cultivates this art of dissonance even in his sets, which is A mixture of Brazilian, Tropical and French variety music (“A Little Sad Like Nicole Croiselle”) Or disco – among others – with a pronounced taste for brutal transformations. “I come from Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where styles and people mix. That’s why I’m associated with diversity and mixing too,” He follows this medical secretary in everyday life. Arriving in Paris at the end of the 2000s, Nelson Drago took his first steps in the Parisian nightlife in the gay bars of the Marais, in particular in Les Souffleurs, where he became friends with the team. “I lived in a maid’s room at Neuilly and went out almost every night when I was absolutely penniless,” Laughs the one who started running playlists at D.C.’s cocktail bars (Experimental Cocktail Club, Candelaria, The Glass) before being called out by many gay parties for his eclecticism. At the end of August, he launched his own group, Bicha, for “pedal” in portuguese.

Your definition of the night

At night, it’s a suspended time where we drag our solitude down trying to turn it into something collective, less individual and less sad. I imagine it as a Petula Clark song. [il cite] : “When I don’t sleep / The night goes on / The night never ends / And I wait for something to come / But I don’t know who I don’t know what.” So it’s time to wait for something to happen. It is also an absurd time, a crossroads of possibilities where anything can happen. We can crush social and economic norms overnight.

Your first trip

“I have memories of being very young on my mother’s shoulders at night, outside at the carnival in Salvador de Bahia where the concept of parties is all inclusive and the decibels of the music are at levels not recommended for children.

“Apart from that, as an adult, I still remember my first evening at Les Souffleurs some fifteen years ago. It seems to me that it was a Thursday evening and the old team was still there. I was struck by the beauty of all these people who were so different and so beautiful together.” Myself that I found a place where I could be every night. There was also something about the jumble of space that allowed for the choreography and it was as if we were one body in motion. I didn’t fall in love with Raidd or Cud.”

Your own soundtrack

“I’m a pretty eclectic boy. It’ll be a mix of MPB, Brazilian folk music, like Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Sparks and Anony [ex-Antony and the Johnsons, ndlr]And Bjork, etc. And then some Bailey funk and a little disco. Shooting my movie will be complicated.”

your object

“Is a tie a thing? Let’s say a lighter because there’s nothing more disastrous than smoking a cigarette and not being able to light it. And then, it creates social bonds. Often in the evenings, you’re asked to light a fire and that leads to discussions and kisses and sometimes more.” Dems said nicely. “Take out the lighters.”»

next weekend

“I mingle at La Planque [club du 130 rue de Rivoli, dans le Ier arrondissement]And On Saturdays, at Rosa-Bonheur des Buttes Chaumont on Friday and Sunday evenings. In this place, there is a charm very much linked to its location, the energy that is spent there, the attention that the staff pays to the public, to the program or to the neighbourhood. The combination works pretty well overall even if we could always work a little more to get more people out there with racism, but I’m sure any day of the week I’ll find someone I know I can discuss with.”